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LSU vs Florida State: TV commentators announced for Tigers’ opener

LSU’s opener will be called by one of ESPN’s top voices.

LSU and Florida State kicking off in New Orleans is exactly one month away, and those who are planning to watch on television now know who will be calling the game.

ESPN announced that Joe Tessitore and Greg McElroy will be in the booth while Katie George handles the sideline reporting. Tessitore is one of ESPN’s primetime announcers and with LSU in the Sunday slot, it’s no surprise to see a big-time crew get the assignment.

It hasn’t been that long since LSU last played in the opening Sunday game. In 2018, the Tigers beat Miami 33-17 in Joe Burrow’s first game with the program.

 

The game is slated for 6:30 p.m. CT and will be broadcast on ABC. It’s LSU’s opener, but Florida State will begin its season the week prior with a matchup against Duquesne.

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Brian Kelly makes cringeworthy statement in postgame interview

Uh, Brian?

When your team almost blows a game it should have won easily, you sometimes say things you don’t mean. When Notre Dame needed overtime to beat Florida State after blowing an 18-point fourth-quarter lead Sunday, you never would have guessed the Irish had won based on Brian Kelly’s words. When being interviewed by Katie George on ABC immediately after the game, Kelly uttered some words that would have spelled disaster for him in any other context:

If this was Kelly’s attempt at being clever, it certainly wasn’t the best one. It wasn’t easy for anyone to watch Irish nearly give that game away, and some fans might have choice words for certain players, if not the whole team. Even if Kelly was saying it tongue-in-cheek in reference to former USC and Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach John McKay, which he claimed was the case, the environment we live in might not let him off very easily, or it might just open him up to ridicule. Either way, it would be a little surprising if social media decided to forget this.

TV broadcast team for Notre Dame season opener announced

Who will broadcast the Notre Dame-Florida State game?

With the first games of the 2021 season almost here, the time has come to find out who will be announcing the ESPN-broadcast games. Notre Dame opens its season Sept. 5 at Florida State, giving it a Sunday primetime spot that will be reserved for NBC Sunday Night Football in the weeks to follow. Of course, this being a road game means the Irish will open 2021 on ABC. We now know that viewers who tune into the game will hear the calls of Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy and Katie George.

Yes, I can hear several of you rolling your eyes at the mere thought of Tessitore and already trying to figure out how to sync the Irish radio call with your TV using your DVR. After all, Tessitore’s Monday Night Football broadcasts with Jason Witten and Booger McFarland are widely regarded as some of the worst in that program’s long history. However, the addition of George from the ACC Network should provide some insight into the conference that might otherwise get lost. McElroy doesn’t seem to get that much hate either, so I guess two out of three ain’t bad.